Marc Andreessen pitched his wife about dating like a startup would pitch a VC

Marc Andreessen, cofounder of Andreessen Horowitz, is one of the
most famous and powerful venture capitalists in Silicon Valley.

In 2006, he married Laura Arrillaga-Andreessen, daughter of real
estate mogul John Arrillaga.

Many
credit Arrillaga with creating the modern Silicon Valley
office landscape.

According to a
New Yorker profile of Andreessen, the prominent venture
capitalist met his future wife at a New Year's Eve party hosted
by an investor in eHarmony.

They talked for six and a half hours, and the next day, he sent
her a total of seventeen emails.

After asking her, "What's your ideal evening?" she
replied, "Stay home, do e-mail, make an omelette, watch
TV, take a bath, go to bed."

Before they went on their second date, Andreessen delivered a
speech that sounds a lot like a pitch a startup founder might
make to an investor.

As Arrillaga-Andressen described it to
the New Yorker, it was "a twenty-five-minute monologue on why
we should go steady, with a full intellectual decision tree in
anticipation of my own decision tree."

Obviously it worked — the couple was married nine months later.
They currently live in a modern, 9,000-square-foot home in
Atherton, just a few minutes away from the Andreessen Horowitz
offices.